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Presented by Kaplan Humanities Institute and Comparative Literary Studies Program.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to complit@northwestern.edu.

The Translation in Theory and Practice Series presents:

A workshop with Matt Reeck, scholar, poet, and translator of French, Hindi, Korean, and Urdu.  

As a literary translator, Reeck has been awarded fellowships from the NEA, the PEN-Heim Fund, the Fulbright Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and ATLAS (Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire). He was a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and 2022 ACLS Fellow, as well as the Princeton Translator in Residence in Spring 2021. His translation “Muslim”: A Novel from the French of Zahia Rahmani won the 2020 Albertine Prize. Bombay Stories, his translation with Ahmad from the Urdu of Saadat Hasan Manto, was chosen as The New York Times Editors’ Choice in May 2014.

His translation The Wound of the Name from the French of Abdelkébir Khatibi won the 2022 Humanities in Translation (formerly Global Humanities) Prize.

As a poet, Reeck has published four chapbooks: Love Songs and Laments, Midwinter, The Pastoral City, and The Necessary City.  Reeck reviews translations and experimental American poetry and he currently teaches French at St. John's University in Jamaica, Queens, New York.